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Date of upload: Aug 14, 2023 ^^
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In my humble opinion, the biggest danger with nuclear weapons is that someone could misinterpret opponents move for an actual attack, or an accident causing a nuclear explosion. Then again, a world without nuclear weapons would be a lot less stable one. Imagine how close Soviet Union and USA got to a nuclear war. Now imagine what would stop then from an open war if mutual destruction was not on the table.
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To get rid of nukes all together youâd have to get rid of every single reason anyone anywhere would want to go to war. Otherwise if there is any chance of any kind of armed conflict nations should be trying to build the best weapons to destroy their enemies with. Thatâs kind of how war has always worked. Even when there are treaties that limit certain types of arms in warfare, once a real war actually breaks out those treaties go out the window.
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I think the alternative is much worse. Without nuclear weapons, major powers would trigger world wars probably every 20-50 years with their conventional armies clashing on the battlefield. And we already had a few of those before. Yes, one nuclear war would destroy our planet forever, but I think that the odds of that happening are much more slim than having a conventional world war every 20-30 years (in the absence of nuclear weapons). Which would probably mean that the world would lose around 300 million or more people every 3 decades. In the grand scheme of things, the loss of life would be much higher compared to a nuclear annihilation that would probably never come.
By owning nuclear weapons, conflicts between major powers are much smaller in scale and generally in the form of proxy wars, using third party countries. As a result, less people are dying and conflicts are generally confined in a smaller geographical area. I think WW3 would've already happened long time ago between the West and the Soviet Union, if they hadn't had nukes back then.
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Very important thing to note, the science of a nuclear winter is heavily disputed, there are many papers that compare the level of debris to major volcanic eruptions and they tend to find that it would be very unlikely for us to trigger a nuclear winter as even volcanic eruptions that spew much more debris don't always. But the scientific consensus is let people believe a nuclear winter is a guarantee so they dont use the bombs
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I had nightmares growing up during the Cold War. If you werenât there you donât know. The absurdity that we are closer now than ever before and itâs not on the societal radar says a lot about how our civilization sits on the fence. Go look at the pics from the Hiroshima blast and how the outlines from the shadows of the victims are still cast as if they are still standing there.
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I would like to say, everytime that a situation where nuclear war almost broke out, either by intention or through mistake, there has ALWAYS been at least one person unwilling to push the button. It takes multiple in order for nukes to be launched, and it seems that 1/3 of people have enough humanity in their hearts to not condemn the world to destruction.
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So Russia, China, NK, Pakistan, India, Iran are to blame for the risks in 0:45 , but never USA nor Israel?
Please remind me who actually used nuclear bombs against civil population.
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